The only Kodi fork in the official Amazon appstore, MrMC, has just pushed a new v2.7 update to their media center app. The biggest addition brought by this new version is support for Plex Cloud and Plex Music to the app’s built-in Plex integration. Also present is a fix for AC3 audio passthrough for older 1st-generation Fire TV devices and a new option to sort content by when it was last played. See the full list of additions and bug fixes on the app’s Amazon page.

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Despite the idiotic name, right now the most reliable Android fork, but let down by the God-awful skins and that they didn’t bother to make it even slightly friendlier than Kodi. They haven’t even thought to customize the keyboard.xml to match the AFTV remote.

Speaking for myself, I wouldn’t buy MrMC (but I did happily donate more than its cost to koying for his work on SPMC…) but I believe MrMC IS currently the only Kodi based app capable of refresh rate switching and 4k support on the FireTV.

I could be wrong on this, and if I am, please correct me. I know koying is working on this, and God only knows what’s going on with Android development in the Kodi project itself… So, if I’m not wrong, MrMC deserves credit for leading in this area.

Amazon-supported or not, given the nearly worthless utility of this app when compared to the multitude of freely available alternatives, why keep reporting about it until the headline reads something akin to, “MrMC app now supports sideloading?”

Not sure what you mean about “MrMC app now supports sideloading,” but as long as MrMC keeps being updated with interesting new features, I’ll keep occasionally writing about it. I know not everything I write about will appeal to everyone, but one man’s worthless news is not necessarily worthless to everyone.

That said I also purchased MrMC (well I had a free $10 to spend in the app store) figured best to keep development of both apps going if at all possible. My entertainment life revolves more around SPMC than Amazon truth be told. (Not the shady plugins either, virtually all local (to my network) content.)

So when you say this supports Plex does that mean native support without a plug? I can point it at my Plex server and get a Kodi like experience with the added functionality of Plex keeping track of all the syncing and meta data?

MrMC by far has the best Plex integration, for a Kodi style app. Kodi and SPMC addons have their flaws. PlexBMC does not allow sorting by recently added, PlexConnect uses a lot of space to create it’s own database. All that being said, MrMC is just another variant, with sizeable functionality removals, but if you use Plex, it gets the job done…

As others have said, yes. MrMC doesn’t support plugins, so all features are built into the core app. You can point it at a Plex server and it will pull all the images and metadata used within MrMC from the Plex server, instead of MrMC crawling all that data and storing it locally on the Fire TV/Stick.

Are you sure about it being 24p instead of 23.976? MrMC’s developers told me that even though it says 24p in the UI, it’s actually 23.976. My TV doesn’t give me that much detail about the framerate so I was never able to test it.

I was quite skeptical at first but when they added the Plex client I had to give it a try, I’m so glad I did. MrMc quickly became my go to front end for my Plex backend on the Fire TV. It is Kodi in it’s basic form, a media player. Its like a less busy Plex app for me. I don’t do pirate addons and I miss less and less everyday not having choices of skins.I still want more though.

It does everything quicker than Kodi or SPMC. Interface is quicker, setup is quicker, playback startup is quicker. I would gladly pay again for a version to put on my Android TV boxes.